
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

impacts means global economic growth of some 2.24% a year rather than 2.30%.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
there is “potential liability for any negative consequences” linked to a weather-modifying intervention.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
reductions—40%—comes from energy efficiency.” The report itself provides data “confirming energy efficiency’s place as the ‘first fuel.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Globally, the GHG emissions from producing beef is on average more than a hundred times greater than those of soy products per unit of protein.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The second category focuses on regulatory policies aimed at either increasing the use of clean energy or reducing the emissions of GHGs.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
meat, fish, and egg consumption is no more than 90 grams per capita a day, the
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Globally, the GHG emissions from producing beef is on average more than a hundred times greater than those of soy products per unit of protein.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
first category focuses on economic policies aimed at raising the price of carbon dioxide (and other GHG) emissions or subsidizing the cost of carbon-free energy sources. The goal of a carbon price is to have the economic cost of burning hydrocarbons (coal, oil, and natural gas) reflect the actual harm their emissions cause to humans and society.
Joseph Romm • Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®
would burn all of our known fossil fuel reserves, since that would mean warming beyond 6°C (11°F) and an irreversibly ruined climate that would have trouble sustaining 1 billion people. It would also mean that (1) the Earth ends up with very large areas that are uninhabitable or unfarmable and (2) the ocean would suffer a mass extinction, with
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